Yonatan Gat’s Iberian Passage to be re-released, listen to a new cut

14 November 2014

Iberian Passage, the debut EP from New York-by-way-of-Tel-Aviv composer and guitarist Yonatan Gat, of Monotonix fame, is being reissued on CD and white vinyl. The EP, which was first released last May via Joyful Noise Recordings, came to life after Gat played in a festival in Portugal where he met Portuguese drummer Igor Domingues (Throes + the Shine). The pair began to collaborate and Gat moved to Porto temporarily, and ended up recording Iberian Passage at Estúdios Sá da Bandeira. Inspired by Brazilian psychedelic experimentalists Os Mutantes and African ensembles such as Orchestra Baobab, Iberian Passage is a tropical and frenetic improvisational affair.

To celebrate this re-release, Yonatan Gat will embark on a European tour next week, with a stop in London on November 19th at The Shacklewell Arms. Head over here to check all the other live dates.

What’s more, the EP comes with an ace brand new song, ‘East to West’, and you can listen to it now.

Soccer96’s Jupiter Masterdrive 7″ EP out next week

13 November 2014

November 24th will see the vinyl release of Soccer96‘s new EP Jupiter Masterdrive. A digital release will follow on December 8th via WotNot Music. The Brighton drums and keyboards duo of Dan Leavers aka Danalogue and Max Hallett aka Betamax have shared a cut off it, ‘Step Overs’, and it comes with a matching kaleidoscopic video made by Mark Ludgate. Check it out below, and straight after, listen to excerpts from the EP.

The Unthanks announce new album, share video for title track

12 November 2014

Four years on from the release of Last, Northumberland based folk band The Unthanks have announce the release of a new full-length album. Mount The Air will see the light of day on February 9th via their own label RabbleRouser. Luckily, we don’t have to wait till then to get a taste of what they’ll be throwing at us. The enchanting title track is being released as a limited edition 10″ single on December 8th and an accompanying video has just emerged. As the press release describes, ‘Mount The Air’ “has echoes of Miles Davis and Gill Evans in their Sketches of Spain period, and climaxes with a euphoria reminiscent of Arcade Fire or Elbow, but without guitars, creating power instead with breathtaking musical colour and beauty.”.
Watch the gorgeous animated video below, made by animator Nick Murray Willis.

Listen to a brand new Mwahaha track, ‘Wine Cooler’

11 November 2014

We’ve been eagerly waiting to hear new material from Oakland based outfit Mwahaha since their outstanding self-titled debut album came out. First self-released in 2011 and reissued last year through Plug Research, Mwahaha remains an absolute all-time favourite record well into this year.
They have been busy preparing its follow-up and finally we can rejoice, for they have just shared a colossal new instrumental track called ‘Wine Cooler’. A sonic wonderland, ‘Wine Cooler’ is gentle but powerful, dark but scintillating, delving into psychedelic krautrock territories full of melodic synth washes reminiscent of German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk. Drop what you’re doing and give it a listen now!

Bolywool’s new 7″ single, Fanø, arrives next week

11 November 2014

Hailing from Sweden, cousins Calle Thoor and Oskar Erlandsson formed Bolywool in 1998. With three albums under their belt, bringing together different constellations of musicians, Bolywool have a new album in the works. As it comes to fruition, they are teasing us with a new 7″ single, Fanø, slated for a November 19th release via Novoton.
‘Fanø’ is described as “another shiny manifestation of the band’s love of windy islands, the desolate and the timeless”, mirrorring their “melting pot of monotonous krautrock, British psychedelia, melancholy, post-rock and dreamy pop”. Fanø comes backed with a new cut, ‘Mynd’, and the digital release includes a remix of ‘Fanø’ by Simon Hildor.
Bolywool have unveiled a fittingly gorgeous video for ‘Fanø’, made by Daniel Josefsson. Watch it below.

Gala Drop return with second full-length album

08 November 2014

Portuguese psych experimentalist outfit Gala Drop are back with a new album, their first in over six years. The new effort, II, is set to be released on November 24th via Golf Channel Recordings.
Gala Drop recruited Detroit ex-pat Jerry The Cat (Parliament, Funkadelic, John Lee Hoker) as a guest collaborator. “It’s as a vocalist he makes his mark on II”, says the press release, adding that “his dub-smeared murmurs and galvanizing cries push[ing] Gala Drop even further away from the introspective, delay-pedal drone duo they started out as nearly a decade ago”.
Ahead of the album’s release, Gala Drop have dropped two cuts off it, the ‘Sun Gun’ and ‘You And I’, the latter being offered with a video by Pedro Maia. Listen to both tracks below.

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